QUAKE from Page 1 Mrs. Jaecks said she wasn’t very worried about the group because she didn’t hear about the earthquake until 10 p.m. and her husband called shortly after that. She said her hus band told her Burrow had to hold up a candle so he could see to dial the number. Mrs. Jaecks, who has been in an earthquake before, said it’s a “very eerie feeling when the earth starts moving underneath your feet.” Burrow said people grow up think ing that “good old mother earth” will always be there to stand on, and it’s really disorienting when it starts moving. The Nebraska group will arrive home Sunday night after the confer ence ends. “We’ll be glad to worry only about tornadoes,’ ’ he said. “I’d much rather deal with them than earth quakes.” PARROT from Page 1 utes that they hated cigarette smok ing. Then Parrot, asked the crowd to imagine she was holding up a pack of cigarettes and asked for slang words to describe them. Responses ranged from grits to cancer sticks. When Parrot asked the audience to imagine she was holding a penis, laughter followed, but no one could offer a slang word. Unfortunately, Parrot said, society permits conversations about ciga rettes but not sex. Thus, most people are not “clear” and “consistent” about what they want and think about sex, she said. “We don’t wear a sign on our neck” saying what is allowed and what isn’t, she said. 1 eacher training addressed From Staff Reports Scholars from across the country will address the topic: “Are Our School Teachers Adequately Trained in Measurement and Assessment Skills?” during the UNL Buros Insti tute of Mental Measurements’ annual meeting Nov. 2 and 3 at the Wick Alumni Center. The Buros Institute, a division of the Department of Educational Psy chology at UNL’s Teachers College, publishes the Mental Measurements Yearbook, a standard evaluation guidebook of psychological and edu cational tests. The keynote address, focusing on the consequences of inadequate measurement of knowledge in schools, will be given by H.D. Hoover of the University of Iowa at 7:15 p.m., Nov. 2. Other speakers include: Arlen Gullikson, University of South Dakota; Steven Wise, UNL; Leslie Lukin, University of Missouri Columbia; Richard Stiggins, North west Regional Educational Labora tory; and Donna Campbell, Arizona Education Association. VALENTINA from Page 1 tries to suppress her laughter as stu dents joke back. She says one reason she and her students have so much fun in class is because of her young attitude. She says it doesn’t matter how old she is because age is a state of mind. “What is age? If you consider silting in a rocking chair old, then I am young.’’ Her vitality is evident in the class room. It’s not uncommon for Ziverts to break out into song in the middle of a lecture or share an old Russian prov erb when she gets the urge. Her mode of teaching often is unpredictable. If, while explaining the definition of a word, $hc is re minded of -her homeland, she will switch at a moment’s notice to a les son on Russian culture. She says she doesn’t mean to A A A A PATROL from Page 1 the ASUN Parking Task Force to ensure the safety of students and property. Vitek said he hopes two or three police officers or some paid stu dent security officers can be hired to patrol the lots. Although many of UNL’s lots are lighted, Vitek said, some stu dents don’t feel safe walking through them after dark. Additional security officers in the lots would help eliminate van dalism and assaults in the lots, he said. Vitek said he has no estimates on the cost to hire additional secu rity, but said he will work with UNL police and Goebel if ASUN advances the bill. “Basically what this is doing is just trying to get the ball rolling be tween the task force, the vice chan cellor and UNL police,” Vitek said. Lt. Ken Cauble of the UNL police said he thinks it is a ‘ 'work able” idea, but the additional se curity officers would have to be paid. * Volunteer patrols of the lots in past years have not worked, he said. “Unless you’re getting paid for it,” Cauble said, “you’re not going to show up every time.” Cauble said the additional secu rity could come from police offi cers or students who work as build ing patrol officers. If student building patrol offi cers are selected to patrol the lots, Cauble said, he would be willing to provide about four days of park ing-lot patrol training to them. Building patroi officfers already are given on-the-job training in security matters, fire prevention, radio use and other matters, he said. Cauble said he is willing to work with the parking task force to determine which lots need secu rity, how they can best be covered and if one patrol can handle one or two lots. But, Cauble said, another monetary source is needed for the project. The police department does not have any funds for the patrols in its budget, he said. Goebel said he hasn’tbeen con tacted formally about hiring addi tional security for the parking lots, but he is open to suggestions on how to make the campus more secure. Although Goebel said he agrees more officers would make the parking lots safer, finding addi tional money to hire more officers is difficult “That’s the principal issue and it always is in the expansion of services,” he said. Goebel said he thinks the UNL police provide the maximum amount of security possible from their existing budget change the subject, . . it just comes.” “How can you learn the language and not care about Russia, Russian culture and history?” she says. While some students say they sometimes have a hard time follow ing her train of thought, Gibbon says Ziverts’ “perceptions of reality offer a good dimension to one’s under standing of the culture.” “Successful language teaching depends on an individual teacher employing their own approach,” he says. Christine Taube, a senior Russian major and Ziverts’ granddaughter, says she has no idea why her grand mother’s approach works so well with students. ‘‘Beats me,” Taube says half-se riously. ‘‘Maybe they wish their own grandmother or mother was like that.” Ziverts says she treats her students the way!the docs not because they are in her class, but because she cares about them. “1 correct their English, 1 correct their manners. I make them greet me when they come to class. Maybe 1 am too much of a mother or a grand mother. 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